Date Published: 01/08/2025

Jumilla continues to invest in sustainable tourism

Improvements to hiking and cycling routes, the botanical garden and the 1700-year-old Roman mausoleum of El Casón are among the projects undertaken by Jumilla Town Hall

Jumilla continues to invest in sustainable tourism The Town Hall of Jumilla continues to implement its Sustainable Tourist Destination plan and has already completed 80 per cent of the work planned, investing 2.4 million euros in a series of 15 projects in and around the town centre.

Some of these projects involve urban infrastructures such as street lighting and general energy efficiency, while others are aimed at regenerating the green areas of the town, such as the Víctimas del Terrorismo and the botanical garden of La Estacada. At the same time pavements have been widened and children’s play areas created.

Jumilla continues to invest in sustainable tourism But from a tourism point of view, the most eye-catching improvements have involved the eco-tourism route of the old Cañada Real transhumance route, parking areas for camper vans and motor homes, hiking and cycling routes in the mountains of Santa Ana and El Carche and at the Fuente de las Perdices, the development of the Hoya de la Sima site which contains footprints of prehistoric animals and the improvements around El Casón. This is a 1700-year-old Roman mausoleum, a small structure but the oldest in the Region of Murcia which survives fully intact!

Jumilla continues to invest in sustainable tourism For more information about visiting Jumilla, including what's on, local news and all of the bodegas on the Jumilla wine route, visit the home page of Jumilla Today.

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Oficina de Turismo Jumilla

The tourist office in the centre of Jumilla is easily found by driving straight into the centre of the town along the Avenida de Murcia and following the signposts. The tourist office is alongside the Parque de Don Albano Martínez Molina, where there are a number of parking spaces.

Jumilla, in the north of the Region of Murcia, has become internationally famous over recent decades due to the quality of the wines produced in the municipality, and wine tourism has begun to attract visitors from other parts of Spain and the rest of Europe.

The tourist office is happy to provide a range of maps and leaflets showing the different bodegas which can be visited within the municipality. Some of these form part of the Rutas del Vino de Jumilla, the Jumilla wine route, and can either be visited as a guided tour or sell their produce directly to the public.(see feed below for more details)

However, the town and the surrounding countryside have plenty of other attractions for visitors, and the popularity of Jumilla wines is leading more and more people to discover other facets of the tenth largest municipality in Spain.

Jumilla Tourist Office

These include the spectacular countryside and birdlife in the Sierra del Carche, the historic remains which range from cave paintings and a Roman mausoleum to the castle, the Iglesia de Santiago, the Town Hall and the Teatro Vico, and the gastronomy: rich stews are accompanied not only by the wines of the area but also by Jumilla pears, which also enjoy Denomination of Origin status.

Tourism in Jumilla is not as seasonal as it is in the coastal areas of the Region of Murcia, but the town is at its liveliest during the fiestas in Holy Week and the August Fair, which incorporates the grape harvest celebrations and the Moors and Christians parades.

The Altiplano of the Region of Murcia, which consists of the municipalities of Jumilla and Yecla, is only just over an hour by car from the Mar Menor, Cartagena, Mazarrón, Torrevieja and Alicante, and anyone wishing to visit real inland Spain and world-class wineries is advised to include Jumilla in their schedule.